1. רוּעַ
raise a shout, give a blast
The corpus record — Hebrew
תָרִֽיעוּ
ruwa · vb
raise a shout, give a blast
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Distribution
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 44 · 1.43/10k
Senses
2. רוּעַ
to mar (especially by breaking); figuratively, to split the ears (with sound), i.e. shout (for alarm or joy)
Attestations
- תָרִֽיעוּ Numbers 10:7 (BHS)
- וַ/הֲרֵעֹתֶ֖ם Numbers 10:9 (BHS)
- יָרִ֥יעוּ Joshua 6:5 (BHS)
- תָרִ֨יעוּ֙ Joshua 6:10 (BHS)
- הָרִ֖יעוּ Joshua 6:10 (BHS)
- וַ/הֲרִיעֹתֶֽם Joshua 6:10 (BHS)
6 of 44 attestations shown.
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Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.